“Galapagos” is the story, sort of, of a second Noah's ark, a 1986 nature cruise booked that in the wake of planetary catastrophe – famine, financial crises, World War III and a virus that eats the eggs in human ovaries – is fated to land on the Galapagos Islands and perpetuate the human race. Humanity «was about to be diminished to a tiny point, by luck, and then, again by luck, to be permitted to expand again».